Jason Brown delivered.
So did Gracie Gold and Ashley Wagner.
The result was the United States kept the maximum three singles spots in both the men’s and women’s events at the World Figure Skating Championships, an accomplishment that takes...

Jason Brown must feel as if he has gone back to the future.
After Friday’s short program at the World Figure Skating Championships in Shanghai, Brown finds himself in almost exactly the same spot, give or take a few tenths of a point, as he was 13...

More than 300 young ice skaters from the Chicago area took lessons Friday from some very good teachers — U.S. Olympic champions.
The Glenview Ice Center hosted the U.S. Figure Skating SkateFest, a free clinic open to the public at which skating...

From the moment four years ago at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships that Jason Brown first showed impressive potential, he talked about following the example of another skater from suburban Chicago.
Sunday, he joined Evan Lysacek as a national...

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — From the moment four years ago at the U.S. championships that Highland Park's Jason Brown first showed impressive potential, he had talked about following the example of another skater from suburban Chicago.
Sunday, he joined Naperville's Evan Lysacek as a national champion by emulating what impresses Brown most about his predecessor.
"Something about Evan that was so incredible was his work ethic and the way he was co consistent," Brown said. "Every time he went out to...

Mind the gap.
The person in charge of that for U.S. Figure Skating is very aware it is growing larger and more dangerous for the sport's future in this country every year.
"I look at the numbers all the time," Mitch Moyer said.
The numbers in question are the eight-season gap since a U.S. woman last won a singles medal at the Olympics or world championships and the four-season gap since a U.S. man has done it.
For the women, that drought is a historic negative. It is both the longest ever at...

GREENSBORO, N.C. - Jason Brown has become the second Chicago area high school grad in the last decade to win a U.S. men’s figure skating title.
Brown, from Highland Park High School, finished second in Sunday’s free skate but his lead after winning the short program was big enough to hold off free skate winner Adam Rippon.
Brown follows Neuqua Valley’s Evan Lysacek, who went on from winning the 2007 national title to take the 2009 world title and 2010 Olympic gold medal.
Brown...

At approximately 8:45 p.m. Friday night, about 30 seconds into Russian figure skater Artur Gachinski's short program at Skate America, the audience at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates will hear the apocalypse.
The sound will be Canadian crooner Michael Buble singing "Cry Me a River."
It will be the first time vocal music with lyrics has been played in a singles or pairs skating competitive program at a major figure skatin gevent.
And there could be no better song title to express the feelings...

The world has become a less enjoyable place. Shep Goldberg died Tuesday at 65, and although you might not recognize his name, you’d know the people and teams he worked for during a remarkable behind-the-scenes sports career.
Goldberg most recently was an agent for figure skaters, notably two-time Olympic medalist Michelle Kwan and Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek, and before that, for gymnast Mary Lou Retton. Long ago, he represented soccer standout Johan Cruyff, introducing Cruyff to American...

Not long after a 13-year-old kid became America’s ice darling of the moment by winning the U.S. Olympic Festival before the largest crowd ever to see a figure skating competition, her father realized he might soon need someone to look out for his daughter’s financial and promotional interests.
This was in July, 1993, when figure skating still had a high profile on the U.S. sports scene, when U.S. women – and girls – still were the sport’s leading ladies. By then, the kid,...